US inflation data showed mixed signals in August, with the overall Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index rising 0.3% month-on-month and 3.4% year-on-year. The 0.3% monthly rise in overall PCE inflation was below economists’ expectations. In July, the overall PCE measure had increased 0.1% from the previous month. US PCE inflation rises 0.3% in August … Read more
The US State Department is moving to expand access to passport records so state and local officials, and potentially some nonprofit organizations, can use the information to verify voter eligibility, according to a Bloomberg report based on a notice sent to key lawmakers. US passport records could become part of voter checks: Inside Trump administration’s … Read more
The state autopsy of 18-year-old Nolan Wells has found that his cause and manner of death are “undetermined,” while a private investigation into his phone has raised new questions about what happened before and after his death. Nolan Wells, 18, went missing on July 4 after a boat trip to Horn Island. His body was … Read more
New Jersey has imposed a record $1.07 million penalty on DataOne after inspectors found 62 large natural-gas generators installed and operating without required air-pollution permits at the company’s massive artificial intelligence data center in Vineland. The state Department of Environmental Protection discovered the generators during a July 29 inspection and said each unit had a … Read more
WASHINGTON — The FBI said Wednesday it was investigating a criminal hacking group’s claims that it had stolen “very sensitive data” belonging to thousands of agents and applicants and that it had compromised the bureau’s jobs website. FBI investigates hackers’ claim to have stolen sensitive employee data, compromised jobs website “The FBI is aware of … Read more
File photo: An FBI agent walks inside the front entrance of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton’s Washington office (AP Photo) The FBI is investigating an apparent cyberattack on its job application website after the hacking group ShinyHunters claimed it stole more than 2 terabytes of data containing sensitive personal information about thousands of FBI … Read more
Representative Image of the Yellow River Basin with expanding planted forests across dryland regions, viewed from above (AI Generated Image) China’s Yellow River Basin has gained roughly 35,000 square kilometres of planted forest over the past three decades, but a study of nearly 20 years of monitoring data suggests some of those forests begin losing … Read more
Canberra, Australia is in the middle of a rapid data centre rollout. Warehouses full of computer servers that run the artificial intelligence tools society increasingly uses are being built at pace, and they draw heavily on essential resources. What does a good data centre future look like? And how do we get there? Data centres … Read more
About 5,000 gallons of diesel spilled from an Equinix data centre into Anderson Creek in Secaucus. (Photo: Bill Sheehan/Hackensack Riverkeeper) Cleanup crews are working in New Jersey’s Meadowlands after roughly 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel leaked from a storage tank at a data centre in Secaucus and entered Anderson Creek.The New Jersey Department of Environmental … Read more
A data centre quietly produces heat every second it is operating. Behind the walls, rows of servers process data continuously, turning large amounts of electricity into computing power and, inevitably, excess heat. That heat has to be removed to keep the equipment within safe operating temperatures, adding significantly to the facility’s energy demand. Green Mountain … Read more